Well, as I know (I may or may not be correct), there aren't any plans about making a new background. If someone decides to contribute a main menu background that's better than the current, then sure. (small note about art contributions in bfw in general: they often just emerge out of nowhere, instead of being planned in advance. Keep that in mind). Personally, I have no problem with the current main menu background, but that's just my personal opinion.

Rodick wrote:Will we change main menu background from what we have to something ''better'' in 1.14 or any version?

Why do you ask? What's wrong with the current one?

I dont like it at all. It doesnt give me that mistery what this game can offer to me in campaign.
This 2 images i put are just sample what would really make that Wesnoth ''mistery of too many creatures''.
Logo on top or sides are damn awesome. So I just asked if there is plan to do something like this in future?

While i admit the above pictures are quite nice, i see absolutely no reason to change the current main menu background. I find the map of the kingdom to be a stellar background which helps describe the geography of wesnoth. The images u showed are better off in story art. Having a map as the main background complements the whole strategy context and also adds professionalism to the game

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Playing Wesnoth since 2010, still there is so much left to play

I personally think that the best solution would be adding an option as ChaosRider mentioned, since we already can change the main theme.
There would be so many options now: 1.10 background, 1.12 background, 1.12 logo, 1.14 logo, 1.10 game theme, 1.12 game theme, and if Rodick's idea makes it into a new release then his new background as well (I prefer the current one, but if the menu bar and the logo would be placed so there wouldn't be such a big gap in the middle then it would be cool).
However, I don't like the idea of moving background, there aren't pictures that are big enough and it would be too vivid for the moderate game.

WTrawi wrote:I personally think that the best solution would be adding an option as ChaosRider mentioned, since we already can change the main theme.
There would be so many options now: 1.10 background, 1.12 background, 1.12 logo, 1.14 logo, 1.10 game theme, 1.12 game theme, and if Rodick's idea makes it into a new release then his new background as well (I prefer the current one, but if the menu bar and the logo would be placed so there wouldn't be such a big gap in the middle then it would be cool).
However, I don't like the idea of moving background, there aren't pictures that are big enough and it would be too vivid for the moderate game.

Those are damn great. If you ask me which one is better I wouldn't know what to say. So something in options that we can change wallpapers would be cool if lot of you like current one, pick that and others could choice some of that we have in campaigns.

Why would you need something in options, with dev time spent on it (menus, selection, buttons), when you can easily change it locally already? As an added benefit Wesnoth has not to bother w/ licenses that way and you can put in whatever you fancy.

(I concede it would be a good idea in principle, maybe even change the default background with each major release.)

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